Linux History

Once upon a Time......

In 1983 Richard stallmen started the GNU project.His idea was to make an operating system which is free and can be modified and used.The name of "GNU"is a recursive acronym for"GNU`s Not Unix".

Richard stallmen

And Also He Wanted this GNU is a Unix-Like operating system which is a collection of applications ,tools,libraries and programs to interact with 
hardware called as "kernel".
"HURD" is the GNU`s own kernel but it was not that much popular.